From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 01:05:03 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201801110805.w0B853sG001874@freefriends.org> Nemo wrote: > On 10 January 2018 at 16:33, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng was born on this day in 1934; a > > computer pioneer (one of the greats) he gave us things like the quicksort > > algorithm and ALGOLW (a neat language). > > Certainly agree with your opinion of Hoare but did the "W" in ALGOLW > not stand for Wirth? > > N. Indeed it did. Wirth did AlgolW before he did Pascal. Arnold